David Bowie has released "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)," the second single from his highly anticipated new album "The Next Day." Photo by Stephen Chernin/Associated Press.| Feb. 27, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

The folk revival and dubstep are two of the hottest trends in music right now. One harks back to simpler times with group singing and rustic instruments like banjos. The other, with its alien, bass-heavy, chest-pounding electronic beats, is like music from the future.

You couldn't find two sounds that are more different. But one band, Imagine Dragons, has channeled them both. The first single, "It's Time," starts with hand claps and mandolin, leading up to a sweeping, synth-swelling, modern rock chorus. The second single, "Radioactive," goes in a different direction, reverberating with steady dubstep-style thumping infused with melodic passages and urgent mass vocals. | Feb. 27, 2013»Read Full Article

WTMJ-AM (620) talk-show host Charlie Sykes will be speaking at a conservative activist training seminar named after the conservative media provocateur Andrew Breitbart, who died one year ago this Friday.

The seminar will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Holiday Inn Express in New Berlin. Registration is $15 at the door. | Feb. 27, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(4)

Stephanie Barenz’s work is sometimes about the in betweenness of travel and the things we carry with us always.

As she applied for the Pfister Hotel’s artist in residence program, she was working on a painting based on her husband's stories about travel in India. Rich imagery, colors and architecture of a distant place and the familiar touchstones of home combined and seemed to float up and out of a suitcase in the work. | Feb. 27, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

To celebrate the new snow, Milwaukee County Parks officials will open the Whitnall Park Warming House, 6751 S. 92nd St., Franklin, early today for sledding and cross-country ski rentals from noon to 6 p.m.

Red Arrow Park's skating rink will also open early, with skate rentals available from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. | Feb. 27, 2013»Read Full Article

The Milwaukee Public Library celebrates the 109th birthday of children's author Dr. Seuss with a day of family activities at the library on Saturday.

The party includes live turtles from Hoffer's Tropical Pets, Green Eggs and Ham cookie decorating, the One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish fishing pond, a Fox in Sox sock match game, Seuss-themed art activities and face painting, live music, a poetry workshop and Seuss story-telling in the story nook. | Feb. 27, 2013»Read Full Article